link folders together

[Michael Havens]

thanks guys


:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Rusty Ramser <rusty_ramser at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, Michael.
>
> Sounds like you're basically wanting to create some symbolic ("soft")
> links from directories in your /home folder structure to the /entertainment
> area.
>
> I would do something like the following:
>
> 1.  First, ensure that /dev/sda4 is mounted, (and that it comes
>     up mounted with system restarts).  Let's assume you have it
>     mounted at the root as /entertainment, for the rest of the
>     example commands.
> 2.  Next, ensure your normal user account has full permissions
>     to the /entertainment partition.  If you mount additional
>     partitions after the initial installation, you'll likely
>     find that the top-level folder structure is owned by root,
>     and that will prevent you (as your normal user account)
>     from doing much with them.  So look at the output from this
>     terminal command:
>        $ ls -l /
>     Does it show that root owns the /entertainment directory, or
>     that your "michael" account owns it?  If root owns it, run
>     the following command to change ownership to michael so you
>     can then freely put files there.
>        $ sudo chown -R michael: /entertainment
>     The case of that capital "R" parameter is important.
>     Enter your password when prompted, of course.  Re-run the
>     ls command from above, and you'll now see that you own the
>     directory.
> 3.  If you don't already have subdirectories called Music,
>     Videos, Pictures, etc. in /entertainment, create them now
>     by running commands like this:
>        $ cd /entertainment
>        $ mkdir Music Videos Pictures
> 4.  If you have existing /home/michael/Music,
>     /home/Michael/Videos, and /home/michael/Pictures directories
>     with any files in them, you will want to move over those
>     existing files to their corresponding /entertainment
>     directories.  Like so:
>        $ cd ~
>        $ mv Music/* /entertainment/Music
>        $ mv Videos/* /entertainment/Videos
>        $ mv Pictures/* /entertainment/Pictures
>     Do this for as many directories (with existing contents in
>     them) as you have.
> 5.  Remove the existing home directories by doing something like
>     the following.  (Double check that all contents have actually
>     been moved before deleting!)
>        $ cd ~
>        $ rm Music Videos Pictures
> 6.  Finally, create the symbolic links in your home directory to
>     their counterparts in /entertainment, by commands like this:
>        $ ln -s /entertainment/Music /home/michael/Music
>        $ ln -s /entertainment/Videos /home/michael/Videos
>        $ ln -s /entertainment/Pictures /home/michael/Pictures
> 7.  Take a look at how caja now works with the "directories"
>     you have created in your home.
>
> Naturally, make sure that the syntax of any of the above commands matches
> your environment and what you're trying to do.  (For example, if the
> entertainment partition is mounted somewhere else besides root level,
> change commands accordingly, if your normal user account isn't named
> "michael", change those commands, etc.)
>
> Happy linking.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:
> plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 20:16
> To: PLUG
> Subject: link folders together
>
> here is the setup of my computer:
>
>     sudo cfdisk
>                                   Unusable
>  1.05*
>     sda4                    Primary   ext4
> 118002.55*
>     sda3                    Primary   ext4
> 117000.12*
>     sda1        Boot        Primary   ext4
> 8999.93*
>                             Logical   Free Space
>  0.17*
>     sda5        NC          Logical   swap
> 5996.20*
>
> sda1 is / . sda3 is /home . sda4 is a partition I created called
> /entertainment . I want to link the folders music, videos, and pictures to
> /entertainment so that when I click on the pretty icon in caja it will go
> to a folder in entertainment with the same name. How do I do it?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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